Match of the Millenials

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Match of the Millenials

Post by Chris Rice » Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:45 am

Very much enjoyed watching Match of the Millenials on YouTube yesterday. Basically a USA v Rest of the World Match for those born after 2000 which the Kasparov Foundation were very much behind and the great man was interviewed by Maurice Ashley during the first round. Four boards were being played in the U-17 and it was 2-1 to USA and everyone had assumed it was going to be 3-1 until it all went pear-shaped in the Burke-Chopra game https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourn ... -u17/1/1/3 . After the game Burke was walking around completed staggered. All the commentators could say (Ashley, Shahade, Ramirez) was that he would be benched for sure the next day. Thought that was very harsh, I'm sure they, like the rest of us, have all been there before so they didn't need to stick the boot in and in fact no praise was given to Chopra for an outstanding defensive performance.
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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by JustinHorton » Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:48 am

Chris Rice wrote: Basically a USA v Rest of the Wold Match for those born after 2017
Sounds like a remarkable event
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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by LawrenceCooper » Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:48 am

Chris Rice wrote: for those born after 2017
:shock:

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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by Chris Rice » Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:54 am

Oh dear, now corrected.

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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by LawrenceCooper » Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:14 pm

Chris Rice wrote:Oh dear, now corrected.
You were probably still shellshocked from Jobava's Bc4 move :)

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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by Chris Rice » Fri Jul 28, 2017 6:23 am

After 4 rounds (3 for the U17 and 1 for the U14) of this 12 round event the World Team have a narrow 8.5-7.5 lead. Incredibly strong players, in the U14s we have discussed Praggnanandhaa, Abdusattorov and Assaubayeva on this forum and in the U17 we have a couple of 2600s for the USA team in Sevian and Xiong. Kasparov is aready saying that the USA is now a chesspowerhouse. More information in this ChessBase report and a very political Chess24 report.

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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by Chris Rice » Mon Aug 07, 2017 12:22 pm

GM Ian Rogers tweets "World team Match of the Millennials players still have not seen their share of the $20,000 winners' prize, with or without the 30% FIDE tax."

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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by Roger de Coverly » Mon Aug 07, 2017 4:35 pm

Chris Rice wrote:"World team Match of the Millennials players still have not seen their share of the $20,000 winners' prize, with or without the 30% FIDE tax."
I suppose that assumes the deal was that the players got a share of the prize money and it isn't just pocketed by FIDE. One of the players was Australian IM Smirnov, which may explain Ian Rogers' interest.

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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by Angus French » Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:11 pm

Roger de Coverly wrote:
Chris Rice wrote:"World team Match of the Millennials players still have not seen their share of the $20,000 winners' prize, with or without the 30% FIDE tax."
I suppose that assumes the deal was that the players got a share of the prize money and it isn't just pocketed by FIDE. One of the players was Australian IM Smirnov, which may explain Ian Rogers' interest.
Why would FIDE be levying charges other than a relatively small one for rating of the event?

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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by Roger de Coverly » Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:42 pm

Angus French wrote: Why would FIDE be levying charges other than a relatively small one for rating of the event?
On events such as the World Championship and Candidates, it's regular for FIDE to trouser part of the prize money.

This was something of a special where a US team took on a FIDE organised team. What was the deal with payment of prizes to individual members of the FIDE/World team? According to Ian Rogers, it's currently effectively nil.

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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by Angus French » Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:17 am

Ah, I gather it's the FIDE-organised World team which owes money to its players - and FIDE were going to take a cut of that.

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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by NickFaulks » Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:31 am

Angus French wrote:Ah, I gather it's the FIDE-organised World team which owes money to its players - and FIDE were going to take a cut of that.
Given that these are non-US citizens playing in the US, I'm a little surprised that the IRS didn't take some of the mpney at source.
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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by Angus French » Tue Aug 08, 2017 11:22 am

Apparently the captain of the World team says they have yet to receive the prize money.

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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by NickFaulks » Tue Aug 08, 2017 11:32 am

I don't know how many other people here have experience of making international payments out of the US banking system, but it is a ghastly business. Let's hope they don't find out that some of the money will end up with Russians.

Anyway, it seems a bit early to panic, and I have no doubt that St Louis will pay.
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Re: Match of the Millenials

Post by Brian Towers » Tue Aug 08, 2017 3:12 pm

NickFaulks wrote:Anyway, it seems a bit early to panic, and I have no doubt that St Louis will pay.
Ironic that Ben Finegold, late of the St Louis Scholastic Center and Chess Club, is complaining that he hasn't been paid after his recent victory in the ALOHA tournament.
Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.